Horse Injury Prevention – Water Bucket Safety
Water buckets seem harmless yet they are famous for catching eyelids and removing them. Ouch! And preventable.
Author: Doc-t
Horse Farm Equipment – Water Buckets
There are so many types of buckets to put water into and this gallery shows you some. Believe it or not, buckets for water and other materials have …
Horse Farm Systems – Water Systems
Water either comes from the ground or from the sky. It is then tapped into and poured into a container for our horses to drink. While simple in co…
Travels With Doc T – June 6, 2014
Pictures from New York on a summer's day. A beautiful barn with hand made interior doors and a set of wolf teeth from a 27 year old that were loose at…
Horsemanship – An Introduction
Horsemanship is leadership. This simple phrase sums up all of my experience with connecting with tens of thousands of horses I have never been wit…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 1
There were 201 deaths caused by farm animals in a year. This included horses. But there were over 1 million visits to the emergency room in a year…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 2
The horse that will hurt you is your own. This law is about complacency. As we become comfortable around our horses we start taking short cuts. A…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 3
Whenever working with a horse, always use a halter and lead. Stay connected. The idea behind a physical connection with a horse is that it prevents…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 4
Place yourself between the horse and the exit. This is an interesting concept that needs to start with a story or two.
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 5
I define horsemanship as leadership. There are no other ways to look at this. If you can’t become the leader of your horses then they will becom…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 6
Leaders cannot lead without first knowing their audience. Leading a child is different than leading an adult. The same holds for horses, but it is a …
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 7
No one will be led unless they feel that they have been listened to first. If a man has no legs and you bark an order to walk to town, your leadership…
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 8
This law of horses only works when Law 7 has been placed into effect. In other words, no one is willing to be led unless they are listening to you.
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law 9
Energy is everything, and like water, always seeks the lowest level.
Horsemanship – Irrefutable Law Ten
To treat any person or animal other than as their species is disrespectful. Treating someone like a dog is as offensive to that person as you treatin…
Stop The Confusion Part 1- A HorseTalk™ Webcast
This is a replay of a HorseTalk™ webcast. Be sure to enroll in the next one and join Doc T live.
Horsemanship – Never Stand With Food In A Field Of Horses
This is a very dangerous situation to be in. Walking into a field of horses with a bucket of grain can lead to your death. It has happened. Horses are…
Horsemanship – Do Not Reward Bad Behavior
Rewarding bad behavior is the most common mistake people make every day with their horses as well as the other people in their lives. Horsemanship IS…
Horsemanship – Never Turn Horses Out Together Wearing Hind Shoes
Countless horses have died from broken limbs caused by pasture mates kicking them with shod hind hooves. There is no excuse for breaking this law.
Horsemanship – Horse Communication – Talk To The Hand
Treating the horse as a patient requires those treating the horse to respect it and treat it as a living being and not as as inanimate object.
Horse Coat Patterns – White markings, Pinto, Roan, Leopard Complex And White Horses
Coat patterns are made of white hairs (non-pigmented) that are genetically determined and applied over the modified base coat color. They are categor…
Beau and Renew Gold®
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Taking this old horse off of grain caused him to lose weight so Renew …
Horse Coat Color – Base Modifiers – The Agouti Control Of Black (Bay)
The Agouti gene controls where the black pigment of black horses is seen by restricting the black to the lower legs, the ears, the mane and the tail.
Horse Coat Color – Dilutions – The Cream Gene
The cream dilution gene can dilute both the red and black base colors to yield the Palomino, the Cremello, The Buckskin, the Perlino, the Smoky Black …
Horse Coat Color – Base Coat Colors Of Red And Black
Independent of what a horse looks like, there are only 2 base colors of horses - red and black. From there horses layer modifiers and dilutors and th…
Horse Basic Care And Safety – Sheath Cleaning Without Sedation
The sheath is the part of the male horse that provides cover and protection to the penis. Cleaning the sheath refers to the regular cleaning of this …
Horse Nutrition – Concentrate Feeds
Concentrate rations are the opposite of forage for horses. They developed a while ago when people moved from the country farms to the industrialized …
Horse Injury Prevention – Dangerous Things Around Horses
There are so many dangerous things I have found on horse farms. These include sharp objects, exposed electric wires and bee hives in the wall. Mos…
Horse Coat Features – The Dapple Hair Color Pattern
Dappling is the description given to any color horse exhibiting circles of a darker color (dark rings) over all of the body.
Horse Coat Color – Dilutions – The Dun And Grulla Gene
This gene can work on both red and black base colors by lightening the base color. It also allows expressing of the primitive markings, most notably …
